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Jurisdiction reports
A recently published case (December 2016) from the Court of the Hague sheds some light on the legal limitations of licensing agreements. It could result in the payment of a backlog of royalties accumulated over 20 years. 24 February 2017
Jurisdiction reports
A common enquiry from our clients is whether corporate changes should be recorded at the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and what the legal consequences of not recording such changes can be. 24 February 2017
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Most online speech platforms could not exist without the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s section 512 safe harbour, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 23 February 2017
Copyright
An American woman who donned a fake moustache and drank from a bottle of beer has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch InBev. 23 February 2017
Copyright
A coalition of music organisations has criticised the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as being “broken and antiquated”, in a filing at the US Copyright Office. 23 February 2017
Patents
McCain Foods has sued a rival company in a patent infringement suit centring on the sale of frozen potato products. 23 February 2017
Trademarks
Changes to EU trademark laws on detaining goods transiting through the EU have yielded positive results, but there is still some way to go. Ulrike Grübler of DLA Piper has more. 23 February 2017
Patents
Law firm McDermott Will & Emery has expanded its IP practice with the addition of Ian Brooks as a partner in Washington, DC. 23 February 2017
Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board adopted a statutory definition of covered business method patents that went too far. 23 February 2017
Jurisdiction reports
From its humble beginnings as the global system for interconnected computer networks that used a specific protocol—the internet protocol (IP)—the internet has become a symbol of how much the modern world is driven by technology. 23 February 2017
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